For years, InterWorks has played a huge role in Dell’s PartnerDirect program. As one of the Southwest region’s biggest and best partners, we have extensive experience working with a wide array of Dell storage products. Most notably, we’ve been at the forefront of implementing Dell...
Here is a quick PowerShell script to help you query the last logon time for all of your users across all of your domain controllers. It will also save the output to a .csv file specified in the $exportFilePath string. I was surprised not to find...
With virtualization continuing to grow into the small and medium business marketplace, it is now affordable for many IT administrators to implement many common best practices such as having a minimum of two domain controllers. Virtualization also has many transitioning/upgrading to operating much easier. When considering...
When freshly installing Windows 8 pro OEM on a wiped laptop, I received an error message: "A media driver your computer needs is missing. This could be a DVD, USB, or Hard Disk driver. . . ." I found it was not even a driver issue, at...
Once a Windows 2012 or Windows 2012R2 has had the Active Directory Domain Services role installed, the domain controller must be promoted to a domain controller. This article outlines the steps needed to add a domain controller to an existing environment. This article is the second...
With Windows 2003 nearing end-of-life, it is becoming more imperative to upgrade to a newer operating system. For many IT admins, this is a great opportunity to start upgrading infrastructures to Windows 2012 or Windows 2012R2. Since DCPromo was depreciated in Windows Server 2012, the...
After updating the driver on a Dell TL2000 tape drive, the devices appeared in Device Manager with a bang, indicating the driver was corrupt. Error message: "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" To fix this...
If you are having problems finding the FREE Windows 8.1 Upgrade in the store, this is the best fix I have found. Note: This is only available if the version of windows is OEM, not an after market install. If the upgrade shows up in the Windows Store: Once...
In October 2013, Microsoft released Windows 2012R2, containing many improved features. A good article outlining those improvements can be found here: http://www.petri.co.il/whats-new-in-windows-server-2012-r2.htm# Although installing the Hyper-V Role is straightforward on a new system, I have seen couple of scenarios where the Hyper-V role will fail on...
Just last week, Ruckus Wireless held their annual BiG DOGs Partner Conference in beautiful Miami, FL. The conference brought together 200 of Ruckus’ best partners in order to share insight and glimpse ahead into what’s around the corner for the enterprise wireless industry. As a...
Yesterday, Veeam released Veeam Backup and Replication 7, which contains some significant improvements such as backup to tape, parallel backups (simultaneous backups with the same job), SureBackup for replicas, and more. The full list can be viewed either at http://go.veeam.com/v7 or http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html?ad=men...
The Issue: I ran across an interesting issue today while setting up a new laptop in which I was getting an error while trying to add a new email account. During the process Outlook informed me that, "The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must...
I recently worked on a quick and dirty Powershell script to send me email notifications when content on a web page changed. To send the email, I also went for the quick and dirty method and just used SMTP with my Gmail account. After I...
One of the great things about virtualization and VMware is the ability to take snapshots of a virtual machine. The snapshot feature allows an IT administrator to make a restore point for a virtual machine that is crash consistent. This feature is particularly useful when...
One of the more common worries of many IT administrators utilizing file servers is that their end users have the potential to overwrite or delete shared files. For traditional backup method, recovery can be a tedious and time consuming process. Fortunately, Veeam Backup and Replication...
So I have owned quite a few access points over the years, and I have taxed them all (to death). My first favorite was the Linksys WRT54G (ver 1/2/3/4) that were modifiable with DD-WRT to get the most performance and features from them. These were...
When trying to log into Smartermail with Internet Explorer 10 using any account, Smartermail will immediately go to a page displaying “An Error Occurred” for "Page: /Login.aspx", and will request that you contact your system administrator. With the IE 10 becoming more mainstream with the...
When installing a fresh copy of ShoreTel or migrating an existing ShoreTel install to a new server, by default the ShoreTel phones will try to retrieve their date and time from the ShoreTel server. By default, the NTP settings will not be enabled in a...
Encryption has been becoming an increasingly popular implementation when it comes to data storage and transfer, and it’s not always a difficult thing to do. I recently encrypted a Mac Book Pro running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) with FileVault 2 and was surprised at...
So I know my title at InterWorks, Inc. says "Systems Engineer", however many of the people know me here simply as "the cell phone guy". Why? Because I always have the newest, latest and greatest, and not always just one. I generally do a full...
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